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Re: Storage and Archiving
by Bob Cole on Mar 22, 2008 at 4:43:01 pm

Great point about the format technology itself becoming obsolete. I don't see this as a major problem; for one thing, you can always keep transferring your digital tapes to new digital tapes. And if you miss a couple of generations, it won't be hard to find machines to play your old data tapes. You can still get 3/4" video decks to play your old videotapes. Given the size of the computer industry, old tape drives will be vastly easier to find than old 3/4" decks.

To clarify, the selling point of tape is that "the stuff sticks" -- if you have a machine capable of reading the tape, the data will be there for decades. Supposedly, this is not reliably true of hard drives.

I suspect that the "camera tape archive" concept is going away anyhow. Where we once religiously preserved all that was shot (even though most of us only went back as far as the masters), now we're going to archive only what was actually captured to the computer that edited the show. In some cases, that will be the whole camera tape.

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